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Sentences ending with lava
- The object of our tramp was to visit a great natural curiosity at the base of the foothills--a congealed cascade of lava. [5]
More example sentences with the word lava in them
- Many a person would be afraid to stay there, even half an hour, when the mountain quakes, the ashes fall in showers, and the glowing lava pours out in a stream. [10]
- This ancient temple was built of rough blocks of lava, and was simply a roofless inclosure a hundred and thirty feet long and seventy wide --nothing but naked walls, very thick, but not much higher than a man's head. [5]
- The lava surface was all alike in the lantern light. [5]
- This ride gave us completely the wide and ghastly desolation of the mountain, the ruin that the lava has wrought upon slopes that were once green with vine and olive, and busy with the hum of life. [4]
- We were besieged to take this and that horse or mule, to buy walking-sticks for the climb, to purchase lava cut into charms, and veritable ancient coins, and dug-up cameos, all manufactured for the demand. [4]
- Broussais was in those days like an old volcano, which has pretty nearly used up its fire and brimstone, but is still boiling and bubbling in its interior, and now and then sends up a spirt of lava and a volley of pebbles. [6]
- Then we took things leisurely and comfortably, jumping tolerably wide and probably bottomless chasms, and threading our way through picturesque lava upheavals with considerable confidence. [5]
- Yet some of the lava blocks quarried out, brought over rough, broken ground, and built into this wall, six or seven feet from the ground, are of prodigious size and would weigh tons. [5]
- We skipped over the hot floor and over the red crevices with brisk dispatch and reached the cold lava safe but with pretty warm feet. [5]
- The walls of the ditch were brilliant with yellow banks of sulphur and with lava and pumice-stone of many colors. [5]
- The smoke of the burning mountain was wrapping itself around him; he was choking with its dense fumes; he heard the flames roaring around him, he felt the hot lava beneath his feet, he uttered a faint cry, and awoke. [6]
- This lava is the accumulation of ages; one torrent of fire after another has rolled down here in old times, and built up the island structure higher and higher. [5]
- Is this dismal superstition to overwhelm and bury the world and all that is bright and beautiful, as the lava stream rolled over the cities of Vesuvius? [10]
- He loved to stand up before a dazed world, and pour forth flame and smoke and lava and pumice-stone into the skies, and work his subterranean thunders, and shake himself with earthquakes, and stench himself with sulphur fumes. [5]
- I forgot to say that the noise made by the bubbling lava is not great, heard as we heard it from our lofty perch. [5]
- I imagined her plunged down a precipice of lava, or pitched over the lip of the crater, and only rescued by the devotion of a gallant guide, who threatened to let go of her if she didn't pay him twenty francs instantly. [4]
- There were doubtless plenty of Kanaka sentinels on guard hereabouts at that time, but they did not leave casts of their figures in the lava as the Roman sentinels at Herculaneum and Pompeii did. [5]
- We climb mountains over scoria that frays and lava that burns. [11]
- There were seven of us walking on the crater of the volcano: great banks of sulphur on the right, dark glaciers of lava on the left, high walls of scoria and volcanic crust enveloping us all about. [11]
- He said we must not try to go on till we found it again, for we were surrounded with beds of rotten lava through which we could easily break and plunge down a thousand feet. [5]
- There is nothing like listening to an artist--all his passions passing away in lava, smoke, thunder, lightning, and earthquake. [5]
- At his feet lay the great mosque, and the citadel, whose guns controlled the city, could pour into it a lava stream of shot and shell. [11]
- The roof is lava, of course, and is thickly studded with little lava-pointed icicles an inch long, which hardened as they dripped. [5]
- We looked like lava men, covered as we were with ashes, and begrimed with smoke. [5]
- The great rocks La Coniere, La Longy, Le Gros Etac, Le Teton, and the Petite Sambiere, rise up like volcanic monuments from a floor of lava and trailing vraic, which at half-tide makes the sea a tender mauve and violet. [11]
- Kilauea never overflows its vast crater, but bursts a passage for its lava through the mountain side when relief is necessary, and then the destruction is fearful. [5]
- Up one side is worked in the lava a zigzag path, steep, but not very fatiguing, if you take it slowly. [4]
- At four o'clock in the afternoon we were winding down a mountain of dreary and desolate lava to the sea, and closing our pleasant land journey. [5]
- After a half hour we reached and began to cross the lava of 1858, and the wild desolation and gloom of the mountain began to strike us. [4]
- Fishes were killed for twenty miles along the shore, where the lava entered the sea. [5]
- The last lava flow occurred here so long ago that there are none now living who witnessed it. [5]
- Standing upon the end of a spur, it seems to be safe from the lava, whose course has always been on either side; but it must be an uncomfortable place in a shower of stones and ashes. [4]
- At first I didn't know what was coming, for the tones were husky, weak, and broken, but afterwards--afterwards the melody burst forth like a stream of lava through the ashes. [10]
- It had lava boulders piled around its base to hold it up and keep it in its place, and it was entirely sheathed over, from top to bottom, with rough, discolored sheets of copper, such as ships' bottoms are coppered with. [5]
- Even so low as the point where we crossed the lava of 1858 were fissures whence came hot air. [4]
- Now red scoria and pumice and sulphur boiled and rolled where the hard lava had frayed our boots. [11]
- Name the length and breadth of the streams of lava which issued from the Skaptar Jokul in the eruption of 1783. [5]
- The devastation consummated along the route traversed by the river of lava was complete and incalculable. [5]
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